Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina people and programs cited recently in the media:
International Coverage
Louisville to Join Atlantic Coast Conference in Exiting Big East
Bloomberg News
The University of Louisville is headed to the Atlantic Coast Conference after the school’s application was unanimously approved in a vote of the league’s presidents and chancellors. The ACC was seeking a school to replace the University of Maryland, which is leaving for the Big Ten Conference in 2014. Louisville is expected to join the ACC from the Big East that year, according to ACCsports.com.
ACC Release:
http://www.theacc.com/genrel/112812aaa.html
Salary growth lagging for U.S. primary care doctors: study
Reuters (Wire Service)
…In addition, more women and minorities are becoming doctors – and research has suggested they make less money than white, male physicians, said Bob Konrad from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who has studied doctor salaries. He added that the new findings may also not tell the whole story for primary care doctors. Recently, employers have started offering to pay off more of new doctors' college and medical school debt as a way of luring top candidates – but these benefits would not show up on their paychecks.
Foreign Business Schools Eye Indonesians
The Jakarta Globe (Indonesia)
The QS World MBA Tour, billed “The Biggest MBA Fair,” has been visiting major cities in Southeast Asia to recruit prospective MBA applicants for the past few years. This year it added Jakarta to the schedule, reflecting a wider push to recruit Indonesians to top business schools. …“The return on investment for graduates from top business schools remains high. MBA is a valued credential and I believe that investing in skills and experiences that will benefit your career well into the future is one worth making,” said Sarah Perez, executive director of the Executive MBA program at the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School.
National Coverage
Study finds link between high fructose corn syrup, Type 2 diabetes
The Los Angeles Times
Researchers from USC and the University of Oxford say they have found an association between countries that have more high fructose corn syrup in their food supply and those that have higher rates of diabetes. …“There is already a growing literature linking sugar in beverages with diabetes,” said Barry Popkin, nutrition professor at the University of North Carolina and author of the book “The World Is Fat.” “The main reason they find this finding is that … it is really sugary beverages" that are the problem.
More Drugs Cited As A Risky Mix With Grapefruit (Blog)
National Public Radio
Grapefruit sprinkled with a little sugar has just the right amount of kick for a morning meal. But when the bitter fruit is mixed with medication, things can get a bit tricky. …Pharmacist Mary Paine, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, notes that "a major, overlooked aspect of all this is that one juice does not predict all grapefruit juice." Concentrations of furanocoumarins aren't the same for every fruit or glass, so trouble isn't guaranteed.
Pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard Reflects on the Rite
The Huffington Post
…That happy nightmare can be heard in Debussy's second book of Preludes, which the illustrious pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard performed recently at the University of North Carolina, in conjunction with Carolina Performing Arts's The Rite of Spring at 100, a celebration of the centenary of Stravinsky's Rite.
ACC to add Louisville in 2014
ESPN.com
Louisville will officially join the Atlantic Coast Conference, becoming the sixth former Big East school to leave for the ACC. The ACC's presidents and chancellors voted to add the Cardinals Wednesday morning to replace Maryland, which will leave for the Big Ten in 2014. …The uncertainty on the college landscape has been so rampant that two league members issued statements about their commitment to the ACC. Athletic directors from North Carolina and Virginia each issued statements, reiterating they had not been in contact with or were interested in any other conferences.
Related Links:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/colleges/acc-invites-louisville-to-join-
conference/2012/11/28/17462e5e-3976-11e2-8a97-363b0f9a0ab3_story.html
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/2012/11/28/louisville-acc-big-east-rick-pitino/1731501/
ACC Release:
http://www.theacc.com/genrel/112812aaa.html
AD seeks to calm realignment rumors
ESPN.com
With conference realignment rumors swirling, North Carolina took the unusual step Tuesday of saying it wants to stay in the ACC "for another 60 years at least." North Carolina athletic director Bubba Cunningham sent an email reply to Tar Heels fans in an attempt to calm a flurry of rumors that had UNC possibly headed to another conference.
Related Links:
http://espn.go.com/blog/north-carolina-basketball/post/_/id/11178/unc
-responds-to-realignment-rumors
http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-basketball/story/2012-11-27/north-carolina-
statement-acc-committment-conference-realignment-rumors
After cancer scare, UNC's Williams changes outlook
USA Today
While he waited to hear if he had cancer, Roy Williams thought of his mother who died during surgery. He thought of his grandchildren just beginning to know him. He thought of how he should have paused to savor those national titles more. He thought of 2009, when barely 36 hours after the championship game, he was standing in a parking lot in Ames, Iowa, waiting to see a recruit.
Regional Coverage
Shortcomings of study linking autism to air pollution highlight need for better research
The Boston Globe
…Autism research is booming with three new studies published in the Archives of General Psychiatry in this week alone; a decade ago. that was the total number published by the same journal in a year, pointed out Geraldine Dawson, a professor of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in an editorial that accompanied the study. “I really do think studies like this one on air pollution are raising more questions than they are providing answers,” Dawson said in an interview. “It’s so critical that we follow up on these studies.”
State and Local Coverage
Louisville 'honored' to join ACC
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The Atlantic Coast Conference found its replacement for Maryland: the University of Louisville. The ACC presidents and chancellors voted unanimously Wednesday morning to accept the former Big East Conference school, league officials said in a release. “The University of Louisville will be a terrific member of the Atlantic Coast Conference,” University of North Carolina Chancellor Holden Thorp, chair of the ACC Council of Presidents, said in a release. “We welcome them as full partners into the ACC.”
Related Links:
http://www.heraldsun.com/view/full_story/20953400/article-ACC-sues-Maryland-
over-fee–UNC–Virginia-pledge-support-for-league?instance=search_results
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/uncnow/unc-ad-bubba-cunningham-we-want-
the-acc-to-be-our-home-for-another-60-years
ACC Release:
http://www.theacc.com/genrel/112812aaa.html
Secession and Revolution
"The State of Things" WUNC-FM
Secession movements are cropping up across the United States following the re-election of President Barack Obama. But what do they even mean? Are they a fluke or an indication that changes are coming? And what relation does secession have with revolution? Host Frank Stasio explores these questions with James Zink, assistant professor of political science at North Carolina State University; Don Doyle, professor of history at the University of South Carolina; Brandon Gorman, a PhD student in sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and filmmaker Rodrigo Dorfman.
UNC gift eases soldiers' sinus woes
WRAL-TV (CBS/Raleigh)
Our armed forces in Afghanistan face potentially dangerous situations every day. They're also working in harsh conditions that can cause a variety of health issues. But a nurse and a doctor at University of North Carolina Hospitals are helping up to 100,000 soldiers get some relief. No matter where soldiers serving in Afghanistan go, it's hard to avoid the dry air, the wind and the sand. UNC nurse Katie Sams' husband Alex is there, and it's taking a toll on his sinuses.
Don’t be afraid to fail, TROSA founder tells social entrepreneurs
The Chapel Hill News
Life as a social entrepreneur can be 16 hours a day, seven days a week, according to Kevin McDonald, founder of Triangle Residential Options for Substance Abusers. McDonald offered frank, uncensored remarks on his path to founding TROSA to the audience of about 40 students and business owners during Global Entrepreneurship Week, held at UNC.
Walking back to the days of New Urbanism (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The Chapel Hill News
We have all heard ad-nauseum that obesity rates in the United States are increasing radically. But what has changed so dramatically in our lives to cause these rates to double in the past 50 years from 13 percent in 1962 to 26.1 percent in 2011 (CDC)? (Carly Sieff is a master’s student in UNC’s Department of City and Regional Planning and works at Alta Planning + Design.)
Do we really need supplements? (Column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The year is winding down, but the nutrition news hasn’t stopped coming. We’re about to close out 2012 with the bang of more evidence of the ineffectiveness of dietary supplements. A study being published in the December issue of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism by John Anderson and colleagues at UNC-Chapel Hill suggests that customary high intakes of calcium in older adults – usually gotten through calcium supplements – provide no benefits to hip or lumbar bone density. (Suzanne Havala Hobbs is a registered dietitian and a clinical associate professor in the department of health policy and administration in the Gillings School of Global Public Health at UNC-Chapel Hill.)
DA Jim Woodall Wants Outside Review Of Kupec/Hansbrough Case
WCHL-FM (Chapel Hill)
Now that the University’s review of the improper use of funds by two of its employees has concluded, Chatham and Orange Counties’ District Attorney wants to make sure nothing was missed.
Counselors’ concerns (Letter to the Editor)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
I was disheartened to see Senior Associate Athletics Director Steve Kirschner respond (“We want educational quality for UNC-Chapel Hill student-athletes,” Nov. 21 letter) to the revelations of the Mary Willingham story by seeking to discredit Willingham [a university reading specialist] and her testimony. This continues an unfortunate pattern at UNC, where embarrassing news involving the athletics program continues to bring forth claims that all problems are anomalous, all necessary fixes are in the works and all who continue to demand more information are unfair. (Jay M. Smith, Professor of History, UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill)
Related Link:
http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/11/27/2509953/chuck-till-still-unqualified.html
Issues and Trends
NCCU costs likely to rise
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
It’s likely to cost a good bit more to be a student at N.C. Central University next academic year. The university’s Board of Trustees heard a draft proposal Tuesday that called for both a 6.5 percent rise in tuition and in fees for next year’s in-state undergraduates. The draft also recommended a 3 percent increase in the cost of housing and a 4 percent hike in the price of dining plans.